AI vs. The Artist: Why India’s Copyright Fix Falls Short

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright

India’s proposed mandatory licensing framework for copyright in the age of AI is likely to encounter serious practical hurdles...

The Uneven Odds of India’s Digital Gaming Marketplace

Online Gaming, Antitrust, Digital Competition

An innocuous gaming pilot program highlights the clear discretionary power that gatekeepers hold over a privately-owned digital economy

When walking, seeing and hearing are taxed: The case against GST on disability aids

Disability, Inclusion, GST

Taxing assistive devices for mobility, sight, and hearing is a structural inequity: a society where one is penalized for...

Revisit digital search powers under the I-T Bill 2025

Income Tax, Search & Seizure, Tech

The proposal to access an individual’s ‘virtual digital space’ raises significant concerns about privacy, overreach, and surveillance

Disinformation in the digital age cannot be fought by taking down content

Platform Regulation, Content moderation

Blunt instruments like safe harbour dilution are unlikely to be effective against systemic challenges such as disinformation

DPDP Act leaves Persons with Disabilities Vulnerable

DATA Protection & Privacy, Disability

The new data protection rules risk turning back the clock for Persons with Disabilities — equating disability with incapacity...

Centering Care in India’s Economic Policy

GENDER, CARE WORK

Big numbers, small change: India’s Budget talks gender, but forgets to care — literally. Care work remains invisible, underfunded,...

Social Media Bans for teens will not succeed: India needs finer policy interventions

TECH, CHILDREN, PRIVACY, SOCIAL MEDIA

Australia’s Parliament has passed a bill banning children under 16 from social media, but India needs a middle path...

India’s AI Safety Institute Should Tap into Parallel International Initiatives

AI SAFETY & GOVERNANCE, TECH

India’s proposed AI Safety Institute can position the country as a global leader in evidence-based, human-centric AI governance.

Tech’s comfort trap may be making our cities unliveable

CLIMATE CHANGE, URBAN PLANNING

As urban heatwaves worsen, convenience-driven living insulates the privileged, leaving marginalized communities to face the consequences of poor planning...

Analysing the Gender Budget of 2024-25 | Explained

GENDER, BUDGET, LABOUR FORCE

Transparent reporting and regular gender audits is the way forward to ensure effective and targeted spending for women's development.

New Broadcasting Bill can do with a Social Media Detox

BROADCASTING, TECH

The draft Broadcasting Services Bill could negatively impact India's growing content creation economy, which has given millions of social...